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1926 in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1926. Musicians born that year included Miles Davis and John Coltrane, american author and dramatist Edna Ferber publishes the novel Show Boat, popularizing life in the Southern United States. Louis Armstrongs Hot Five releases recordings on Okeh, Virtuoso cornet work on Cornet Chop Suey, jelly Roll Mortons Red Hot Peppers recordings on Victor, Sidewalk Blues. In 1926 standards published included Big Butter and Egg Man, Bye Bye Blackbird, august, David Stanley Smith Professor of Music at Yale University, dismisses Jazz as a serious art form in The Musician. November, Andrè Coeuroy and Andrè Schaeffner publish Le Jazz, jacques Émile Blanche criticizes Jazz music and dance in La Revue nouvelle as a foreign import that threatens the nationality of France. 1920s in jazz Jazz Age Roaring Twenties

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1926 in architecture
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The year 1926 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. June 7 - While walking along the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes in Barcelona, Antoni Gaudí is struck by a passing tram, delays in receiving medical treatment contribute to his death in hospital a few days later. On June 12, after a procession through the streets of Barcelona lined by thousands. November 27 - In Williamsburg, Virginia, the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg begins, undated British General Post Office K2 red telephone box, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, is introduced, chiefly in the London area. The Frankfurt kitchen is designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for Ernst Mays social housing project New Frankfurt in Frankfurt, the russian avant-garde magazine SA is published for the first time. Louis, Missouri, USA, designed by Mauran, Russell & Crowell with I. R, timlin Sourdough Inn, Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA900 Stewart Avenue, USA Royal Gold Medal - Ragnar Ostberg. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture, Jean-Baptiste Hourlier

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1926 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1926. February 8 – Seán OCaseys play The Plough and the Stars opens at the Abbey Theatre, on February 11, the performance is marred by ugly scenes in the audience, one man strikes an actress. February 12 – The Irish Free State minister for Justice, Kevin OHiggins, February 26 – The future English novelist Graham Greene is received into the Catholic Church. April 1 – Hugo Gernsback launches his pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in the United States, may 11 – C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien meet for the first time in Oxford. October 14 – The childrens book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published by Methuen in London. December 3 – English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey, December – Thomas Mann begins writing Die Geschichten Jaakobs in Munich, first of the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers on which he will work until January 1943. Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac establish the Théatre Alfred-Jarry in Paris for the production of surrealist drama, bread Loaf Writers Conference is founded in Middlebury, Vermont. Ford Madox Ford publishes A Man Could Stand Up --, the book of a four-volume work titled Parades End published between 1924 and 1928. Vsevolod Meyerhold stages a landmark production of Gogols satirical comedy The Government Inspector in Moscow. Margaret Mitchell begins writing the novel Gone with the Wind, the remains of English poet Isaac Rosenberg are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France. S. S. Van Dine publishes the first Philo Vance mystery novel, Peter Llewelyn Davies establishes the London publishing house Peter Davies Ltd. Yeats – Autobiographies Paul Zarifopol – Din registrul ideilor gingașe Alfred Eckhard Zimmern – The Third British Empire January 5 – W. D

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Music of Norway
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Norway is a rather sparsely populated country in Europe, but even so its music and its musical life are as complex as those of most other countries. Much has been learned about music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs. These include instruments such as the lur, viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do the accounts of priests and pilgrims from all over Europe coming to visit St Olafs grave in Trondheim. In the later part of the 19th century, Norway experienced economic growth leading to greater industrialization and urbanization, more music was established in the cities, and opera performances and symphony concerts were considered to be of high standards. In this era both prominent composers and performers combined the European traditions with Norwegian tones, the import of music and musicians for dance and entertainment increased, and this continued in the 20th century, even more so when gramophone records and radio became common. In the last half of the 20th century, Norway, like other countries in the world. Before 1840, there were limited sources of folk music in Norway. Originally these historical attainments were believed to have a distinct Christian influence, as research continued, there was also mythical and fairy tale connections to the folk music. Overall the purpose of music was for entertainment and dancing. Norwegian folk music may be divided into two categories, instrumental and vocal, as a rule instrumental folk music is dance music. Norwegian folk dances are dances and usually performed by couples, although there are a number of solo dances as well. Norway has very little of the ceremonial dance characteristic of other cultures, dance melodies may be broken down into two types, two-beat and three-beat dances. The former are called halling, gangar or rull, whereas the latter are springar or springleik, Traditional dances are normally referred to as bygdedans. These dances, sometimes called courting dances were often connected to the important events of life, weddings, funerals. Folk music in Norway falls in another 2 main categories based in the populations from which they spring, North Germanic. Traditional Sami music is centered around a vocal style called joik. Originally, joik referred to one of several Sami singing styles. Its sound is comparable to the chanting of some American Aboriginal cultures

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Erik Bye
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Erik Erikssønn Bye was a versatile Norwegian journalist, artist, author, film actor, folk singer and radio and television personality. He was one of the 20th centurys most well-known and popular radio, born in Brooklyn, New York, to Rønnaug and opera singer Erik Ole Bye, his family moved home to Norway when he was six years old. After a few years in Ringerike they settled in the Nordstrand borough in Oslo, in his teens, Bye joined the Norwegian resistance movement during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during World War II. During his studies he traveled extensively throughout the United States, taking odd jobs. In 1953, Bye took his first job as a reporter with the Associated Press, in 1955, he moved to London and worked three years at the BBC Overseas Service as an apprentice to Anthony Martin before returning home. Bye enjoyed immense popularity with generations of Norwegians, and his songs and programs on radio and he was noted for his gift of being equally comfortable with the King of Norway and a random character met on the street. Bye was well known for his support of Norwegian sailors, the society also named one of their rescue vessels after the artist. In 1978 the King of Norway made him a Knight, 1st Class in the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, in 2005 he was voted the third greatest Norwegian of the 20th century by the viewers of NRK, behind King Olav V and Einar Gerhardsen. Bye was married to politician Tove Billington Jørgensen from 1953 until his death from cancer, which took place in Hvalstad, Asker, Norway

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Store norske leksikon
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Store norske leksikon, abbreviated SNL, is a Norwegian language encyclopedia. The SNL was created in 1978 when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget, the name translates into English as Great Norwegian encyclopedia. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norways two largest, had published Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon and Gyldendals konversasjonsleksikon, respectively, the respective first editions were published in 1907–1913 and 1933–1934. The fourth edition consists of 16 volumes, a total of 12,000 pages and 280,000 entries, on 12 March 2010 Store Norske Leksikon announced that from 1 July 2010 there would be no new editions of Store Norske Leksikon, because of lacklustre sales. The main reason behind this decision was stated to be Wikipedia, SNL became available online since 2000 and had several hundred thousand subscribers, both private and institutional. The number of articles is about 150,000. Since 25 February 2009, the encyclopedia has been free. The online version of the Store norske leksikon

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Norsk biografisk leksikon
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Norsk biografisk leksikon is the largest Norwegian biographical encyclopedia. The first edition was issued between 1921 and 1983, including 19 volumes and 5,100 articles and it was published by Aschehoug with economic support from the state. Kunnskapsforlaget bought the rights to NBL1 from Aschehoug in 1995, the project had economic support from the Fritt Ord Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, and the second edition was launched in the years 1999-2005, including 10 volumes and ca.5,700 articles. In 2006 the work for an edition of NBL2 began. In 2009 an Internet edition, with access, was released by Kunnskapsforlaget together with the general-purpose Store norske leksikon. The electronic edition features additional biographies, and updates about dates of death of biographees, apart from that, the vast body of text is unaltered from the printed version. This is a list of volumes in the edition of Norsk biografisk leksikon. Published 2005 Volume 10, Wilberg–Aavik, plus extra material, published 2005 This is a list of volumes in the first edition of Norsk biografisk leksikon. Published 1923 Volume 2, Bjørnstad–Christian Frederik, published 1925 Volume 3, Christiansen–Eyvind Urarhorn. Published 1931 Volume 6, Helland–Lars Jensen, published 1934 Volume 7, Lars O. Jensen–Krefting. Published 1940 Volume 10, Narve–Harald C, published 1949 Volume 11, Oscar Pedersen–Ross. Published 1966 Volume 16, Sørensen–Alf Torp, published 1969 Volume 17, Eivind Torp–Vidnes. Published 1975 Volume 18, Vig–Henrik Wergeland, published 1977 Volume 19, N. Wergeland–Øyen

The waltz (from German Walzer [ˈvalt͡sɐ̯]) is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple time, performed primarily …

Detail from frontispiece to Thomas Wilson's Correct Method of German and French Waltzing (1816), showing nine positions of the Waltz, clockwise from the left (the musicians are at far left). At that time, the waltz was a relatively new dance in England, and the fact that it was a couples dance (as opposed to the traditional group dances), and that the gentleman clasped his arm around the lady's waist, gave it a dubious moral status in the eyes of some.